2017-2018 Acting Precursor Breakdown: BFCA – GG – SAG – BAFTA – Oscar
Here is the list of every contender to receive a Critics’ Choice (BFCA), Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and/or BAFTA nomination for the 2017-2018 awards season on the way to Oscar nominations.
11 people achieved all four precursors and, unlike last year with Amy Adams (Arrival), every one of them earned an Oscar nomination. Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) is the first person to get an Oscar nomination with just SAG and BAFTA since Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) 11 years ago. Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) is the first actress to get in with just BAFTA
Here’s the breakdown:
BFCA + GG + SAG + BAFTA
Nominated:
Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
BFCA + GG + SAG
Nominated:
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Not nominated:
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Hong Chau – Downsizing
BFCA + GG + BAFTA
Nominated:
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
BFCA + GG
Nominated:
Meryl Streep – The Post
Not nominated:
Tom Hanks – The Post
Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your Name
BFCA + SAG
Not nominated:
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
GG + SAG
Nominated:
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Not nominated:
Judi Dench – Victoria & Abdul
Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes (*GG in lead)
GG + BAFTA
Nominated:
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World
SAG + BAFTA
Nominated:
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
BFCA only
Not nominated:
Jake Gyllenhaal – Stronger
Patrick Stewart – Logan
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
GG only
Not nominated:
Ansel Elgort – Baby Driver
Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman
Helen Mirren – The Leisure Seeker
Emma Stone – Battle of the Sexes
Michelle Williams – All the Money in the World
BAFTA only
Nominated:
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Not nominated:
Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Annette Bening – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour
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